News and announcements

This slide deck includes a summary of findings from the African IXP Association's 2017 Benchmark Survey as presented by Kyle Spencer at the RIPE 75 meeting in Dubai, UAE and Euro-IX 32 in Galway, Ireland. A video of this presentation can be found here: https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/108/

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Attached are copies of presentations given at AFIX 2017 meeting in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Monday, August 21st. The event was held in conjunction with the Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) and was sponsored by The Internet Society. The AfPIF event website can be found here: http://www.internetsociety.org/afpif/2017/

A few additional notes regarding the meeting and presentations:

1. The Cloudflare presentation indicated on the agenda did not occur due to Air France's inability to deliver the presenter, Martin Levy.
2. The ARDA presentation noted in the agenda did not have slides. It was a live demonstration using the project website: http://arda.af-ix.net/ARP/index.php
3. The presentation on IXP Jedi by Hisham Ibrahim (RIPE) took place in the afternoon session but was not included in the original agenda.
4. Flexoptix became the first official paying patron of the African IXP Association at this meeting.